Geoffrey Wardrop, Teacher, high school principal, 1923-2001. The 1950s in rural NSW could have been a far duller place were it not for Geoffrey Wardrop, who introduced Gilbert and Sullivan to a number of local high schools. Wardrop, who has died aged 78, was a geography and economics teacher..read more

Real policemen don't wear helmets in the Yorkshire countryside, but since flat-capped TV bobbies don't fit the image in overseas TV markets that little detail was ignored when they set to turning the moorland village of Goathland into the setting for Aidensfield in the long running saga of Heartbeat